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Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson speaks to police and youth attending a 5000 Role Models conference at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida on Nov. 1, 2022. (Jose A. Iglesias/Miami Herald/TNS By Rep. Frederica S. […]

By Lynn Jones-Turpin | While most Americans celebrate freedom on the Fourth of July and many associate Black freedom with the emancipation of proclamation, Jacksonville veteran Allen Bird believes another date deserves national recognition. Bird […]

The Sulzbacher took another major step in its decades-long mission to combat homelessness Friday, breaking ground on the next phase of its transformative Enterprise Village development in Northwest Jacksonville. City officials, community leaders and nonprofit […]

As debates over voting rights, diversity initiatives and civil rights protections continue nationwide, community organizations across Jacksonville are joining a national “Good Trouble Lives On” weekend to honor the legacy of the late Congressman John […]

by Sylvia Perry For generations, Black Americans were denied equal access to higher education through segregation, discriminatory admissions policies, unequal public school funding and laws that barred many colleges and universities from admitting Black students. […]

by Sylvia Perry More than a century after Madam C.J. Walker shattered economic barriers by becoming America’s first self-made female millionaire, a new generation of Black wealth creators is redefining what financial success looks like […]

  In a landmark moment for one of the nation’s oldest and largest child advocacy organizations, the Florida Parent Teacher Association has elected Jude Bruno as its new state president, making him the first Black […]

It was like a “Tale of Two Cities”: The best of times and the Worst of Times. It was the best of times for the hundreds of immigrants that were sworn in as U.S. naturalized […]